Two Will County jail inmates face new charges in separate incidents that involved one of them spitting on a guard and another breaking a clock and wiping walls with a towel stained in feces, police said.

On Sunday evening, when inmates were instructed to go back to their cells for a lockdown, Alexis Cadenas, 29, went into his cell and came back out to the dayroom with a towel, Will County sheriff spokeswoman Kathy Hoffmeyer said.

Cadenas stood on a water fountain, destroyed a digital clock hanging on the wall and wiped a towel on the walls and other cell doors before he was secured in his cell, she said.

"It was then discovered that the towel had feces on it, which was observed on the walls and other cell doors," Hoffmeyer said.

Cardenas was charged with criminal damage to government-supported property for breaking the clock, court records show. He was previously charged with breaking the glass case of a fire extinguisher with his elbow on March 17 at the Will County Courthouse.

On the same day, while jail staff were serving breakfast inside the cell of Paul Emerick, 66, he spat on guard when he was handed his food tray, Hoffmeyer said. The saliva hit the guard's hands and pants, she said.

Emerick then began acting like he was going to spit again when the guard took control of him, she said.

Emerick was charged with aggravated battery for spitting on the guard, court records show.

“No reason was given by Emerick why he acted in such a manner,” Hoffmeyer said.

Cadenas and Emerick are among the latest inmates this year to face criminal charges over incidents at the facility.

On Aug. 14, Dieontae Sparks, 20, Nikolaus Vaughn, 20, Malik Elam, 21, Malik Garfield, 20, and Darion McMillian, 19, were charged with collectively attacking Kendall Guyton, 25, and damaging mops and buckets at the jail.

Damonte Burnett, 25, who is free on bond, was charged with attempting to hit two guards with a chair on May 31. He was arrested again in Joliet for threatening to shoot a man but he displayed no weapon, police said.

On May 2, convicted sexual predator Quinton Jenkins, 38, struck and pushed a guard because he was upset about some of the rules inmates have to follow at the jail, police said.

Sparks threw a plastic bag of feces at a guard on March 30 after he refused to go back to his cell during lockdown, police said.

Jacob Bogdan, 21, coughed on a guard's face on March 23 to make the guard think he had COVID-19, police said. He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault over the incident and he was released from jail on June 22.